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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 21:15
hahahhah... that is prog ...or specifically prog album art for you...  innocent until you start make realizations about it.. then you can never look at the album the same way.

Parsifal.. one of the albums I posted.. was exactly the same way LOL
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Points: 894 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 20:59
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ another good one... here's some that never set quite right with me.




Funny thing, I was actually looking at this album earlier and realized for the first time it was some kind of strange, ripped-up space whale (after having seen it for the first time several months ago). It always seemed interesting, but I guess I had never really thought about what the image really was. Now I find it quite... disconcertingDead
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Points: 168 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 19:47

Originally posted by profanatio profanatio wrote:

Anything with Roger Dean artwork makes a cover look ridiculously dated.

I was kind of surprised that no Roger Dean covers made the list, not because I think they are bad, but because of the provocative nature of the list. Then Mickey said the person who made list knew their stuff and it struck me: they knew where to draw the line between raising the ire of hard core prog fans and making a list that would cause bomb threats at Onion Central.

 
 
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Points: 55 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 18:48
Originally posted by AShowOfHands AShowOfHands wrote:

The Nursery Cryme album artwork is horrible. Looks really poor.
It's miles ahead of the Miami Vice-style 'A Show Of Hands' cover Syme designed for Rush in the late 80's.
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Quote Wow, Ivan, that's really terrible. I'm surprised the label didn't stop them.

 

 

As a fact, they managed to control the band apparently. As far as I know, they wanted to recreate the joke completely, but the label said no way José, so they reached an agreement to this cover that makes no sense at all.

 

Something similar happened with Aphrodite’s Child, they wanted an album in red with big 666 on numbers, plus a joke saying “This album was conceived under the influence of Sahlep”.

 

Of course the label opposed, radical groups made a scandal, but the guys insisted, so their record was in the freezer for almost two years, until Vertigo dared to release it with everything Aphrodite’s Child insisted, but the band didn’t existed anymore, they had split long before.

 

People thought Sahlep was a Greek demon but at the end it was only a non alcoholic beverage from Turkey (Well at least here in Perú they do Sahlep with a bit of alcohol, almost as Irish Coffee).

 

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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 17:14
Yes, the I Dik Dik Suite... and PFM Chocolate Kings covers, those are really horrible prog covers. Both great albums, by the way.
 
Just adding nothing to the discussion, just wanted to say that I love the Tarkus cover, and even the Yes' Hipgnosis covers. And all Paul Whitehead covers are wonderful.
 
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:

There is an awful and ridicolous cover that i always remember:
 
 
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I always thought the two men on the cover of Rush's Hemispheres were supposed to represent the Apollo and Dionysus that the title track is about.  But perhaps I give the cover too much credit . . .
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 16:22
Yeah...a lot of the covers from the 70s I don't "get."

Now you might have cheesy metal album covers, but at least you don't have revolting weirdness like Birth Control albums or Le Orme's Collage.
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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 15:41
^ another good one... here's some that never set quite right with me.
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Points: 2747 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 15:28
My favourite band 'Gentle Giant' produced one of the worst album cover ,. my favourite album
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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 15:13
Originally posted by profanatio profanatio wrote:

Anything with Roger Dean artwork makes a cover look ridiculously dated.


hahahha.. and your point is?  Those albums ARE 30 odd years old you know LOL.   A '69 GTO looks dated in comparison to the sh*t Detroit rolls out to today...  but when you want to go for a spin.. which one would you choose. 
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Anything with Roger Dean artwork makes a cover look ridiculously dated.
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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 15:02
Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:

There is an awful and ridicolous cover that i always remember:
 
 
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It's too crazy!!! I can't take it!!!!
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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 15:01
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

The album by Camel is a new version of an old and bad taste joke, it's said tghat Jesus in the Cross called Peter (who wasn't really at the cruxifiction place but the joke goes like this) and Peter answers "Yes Master", Jesus calls him again and asks him to climb the ladder to the Cross. Peter goes and Jesus tells him in he ear "I can see your house from here".
 
That's why the album got a lot of bad reactions in their day, thre joke is not only disrespectful, but also a bad one.
 
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hahhahahhaha....  being the heathen I am.. hadn't heard that one...
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Points: 3737 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2008 at 14:53
In the court has a great cover, that shouldn't be on there.
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